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Back when we started talking up gold in August 2001 when the metal traded at $270, if we suggested that some day a large insurance company will buy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold to "hedge against further asset declines" we'd have been laughed off the Internet. And then...
Northwestern Mutual Makes First Gold Buy in 152 Years
June 1, 2009 (Bloomberg - Andrew Frye)
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., the third-largest U.S. life insurer by 2008 sales, has bought gold for the first time the company’s 152-year history to hedge against further asset declines.
“Gold just seems to make sense; it’s a store of value,” Chief Executive Officer Edward Zore said in an interview following his comments at a conference hosted by Standard & Poor’s in Brooklyn. “In the Depression, gold did very, very well.”
Northwestern Mutual has accumulated about $400 million in gold, and Zore said the price could double or even rise fivefold if the economy continues to weaken. Gold gained 10 percent last month, the most since November. The commodity has more than tripled since 2000, rising for eight straight years. Gold futures for August delivery slipped $4.80 to $975.50 at 4:03 p.m. in New York.
AntiSpin: Today, with this announcement, gold officially exited the Early Adopter stage of market development and entered the Early Majority stage.
We entered at the Innovator stage. We intend to exit during the Late Majority stage when most of the price appreciation can be expected to occur. The dates are, of course, guesses. Our long term gold price target is $2,500.
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